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  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1987

Physics in Living Matter

Proceedings of the Tenth Gwatt Workshop Held in Gwatt, Switzerland, October 16-18, 1986

Editors:

  1. Dionys Baeriswyl
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  2. Michel Droz
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  3. Andreas Malaspinas
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  4. Piero Martinoli
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 284)

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. The protein as a physics laboratory

    • Hans Frauenfelder
    Pages 1-14

  3. The physics of evolution

    • Manfred Eigen
    Pages 15-16

  4. Symmetries in biology

    • Yves Bouligand
    Pages 17-31

  7. Magnetic resonance imaging in medicine

    • P. Boesiger
    Pages 62-72

  8. Digital image processing

    • Murat Kunt
    Pages 73-75

  9. Physics of biological membranes

    • Ole G. Mouritsen
    Pages 76-109

  13. Physics of the brain

    • Rodney M. J. Cotterill
    Pages 138-151

  14. Models of neural networks

    • Wolfgang Kinzel
    Pages 152-162

  15. Nonabelian neurodynamics

    • K. Hepp, V. Henn
    Pages 163-177

  16. Back Matter

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About this book

It was the aim of the 10th workshop in Gwatt (Switzerland), October 1986 to elucidate the twofold impact of physics on the life sciences. On the one hand, the powerful techniques developed for studying complex physical phenomena are very useful in the biological context. Equally useful, on the other hand, are certain physical concepts, such as symmetry and symmetry breaking, linear and nonlinear stability, frustration and constrained dynamics. In this respect the book presents exemplary contributions on topics such as - studies of the symmetries and structure of biological systems using NMR, electron microscopy and image processing; - thermodynamics and transport properties of biomembranes; - physics of proteins and applications in biotechnology; - neural networks and brain research; - the theory of evolution. Researchers in physics, particularly in statistical and biophysics, biology, physiology and medicine will find this book an excellent survey of the most lively fields of physics in living matter.
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